HÆC SUNT ILLA,
QUIBUS NOSTRA

que les Sibylles en transe

into a
prophetic trance."

OLIM ARCANA SALUTIS

prédirent
en choeur il y a longtemps."

BIS SENÆ IN
TREPIDO,

CECINERUNT ORE
SIBYLLE.

The medievaly colored polyphonic MIDI music(*)
you should actually hear is a prelude to
the animation of the geomantic astrolab that will automatically
load in a few moments...

This working electronic replica of the geomantic astrolab
was first planned in the "Dodechedron Project"
to be a functional simulation of the Thirteenth-Century Divinatory
Device from the British Museum (Department of Oriental Antiquities, Inv. N° 1888.5-26.1).

(*) MIDI MUSIC SOURCES & CREDITS :

All the "MIDI MUSIC" arrangements(2) used for this animation are an adaptation of the Orlando di Lasso
 Carmina Chromatica and other PROPHETIAE SIBYLLARUM motets (XVIe.).

The MIDI files were generated from a public domain "tablatures Zarlino" transposition of the "PROPHETIAE SIBYLLARUM" music sheet, thanks to the excellent "ZARLINO TRANSPOSER" _a French freeware !_, that you may hear thanks to the "INTERNET AMP MIDI PLAYER" ("InternetAmp 2.0", DHTML script) _ actually playing from the icon you may see below on this page_.

You may listen to a full Lyric version of the prologue performed by the
Hilliard Ensemble from their official page at NEWWORLDCLASSICS.COM